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...stampede to stock up before the tax becomes law, dealers have kept the soap works running night & day. Warehouses are crammed. Retailers have passed the word on to housewives and bathroom shelves are piled high. The trade is usually stocked for about a fortnight but the supply is now sufficient for three months. Whether or not the tax is passed, Col. William Cooper Procter and all the other U. S. soap makers must wait a long, long time before the last cake of tax-free soap goes down the trap in suds...
From Stillman Infirmary comes news of another act which, if not so murderous, is equally diabolical. When a Law School patient was informed that smoking was absolutely prohibited on his floor, he adopted the expedient of slipping off to the bathroom and there indulging in a smoke. Caught in the act, he was reprimanded, which did no good. Next his bedroom slippers were taken from him, in the hope that he would not venture forth barefoot. This was equally ineffective. The nurses then went into a huddle--and the patient was deprived of his bathrobe and the lower half...
...became so ill that I could not stand. My wife came upstairs also and threw herself on the bed and called me twice. I was so far gone that I did not hear her come upstairs nor did I hear her call me. When she dragged herself to the bathroom door and announced that she too was so sick that she could hardly stand I realized that we were both being overcome by the poison. Luckily we were still able to open windows, doors and shut off the heater...
...complaints that Viva Villa was rowdily derogatory to revolutionary Mexico. Nellie Campobello, adopted daughter of the late Pancho Villa, now director of the dance department of the public education ministry, called the film an insult to Mexico" because one scene in it depicted her father experimenting with a civilized bathroom as though he had never seen one before...
Divorced. "Prince" Serge Mdivani, sleekest of Russia's "Marrying Mdivanis," divorced husband of Cinemactress Pola Negri; by Mary McCormic, operasinger; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty (he threatened to "maim and disfigure" her, called her "terrible names," locked her in the bathroom, paid no bills). Two days later Singer McCormic heard that a hotel hostess named Grace null was in a Los Angeles newspaper office hawking details of the property settlement. Raging, she sped thither, slapped the informant soundly. Prince Serge defended Miss Williams: "She had a perfect right. . . . I have given her the keeping of all my private papers...